Frances Peternel

PRICE/TUCSON,Ariz. - Our beloved mother, grandmother and friend, Frances Peternel returned to our Heavenly Father on Sept. 22, 2012 at the age of 87.

Frances was born May 3, 1925, in Zagorye, Yugoslavia (Slovenia) to Anton and Maria Sedmak Sabec.

On July 16, 1957, she married Joseph Peternel Jr., in Brezje, Yugoslavia (Slovenia) at the village church. He died April 13, 1994.

She arrived in the United States on Feb. 2, 1958, making Price her new home. Frances was a member of Notre Dame de Lourdes Catholic Church, Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church, Western Slavonic Association and S.N.P.J. Lodge #113.

She is survived by her daughter Maria and son-in-law Robert Turk; grandchildren Andrew and Julie Turk of Tucson, Ariz.